Adjustable horse-blanket fastener



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E. E. BROWN. ADJUSTABLE HORSE BLANKET FASTENER.

No. 258,215. Patented May 23, 1882.

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ELMER E. BROWN, or ronrnann, MAINE.

ADJUSTABLE HORSE-BLANKET FASTENER;

SPECIFICATIONforming part of Letters Patent No. 258,215, dated May 23, 1882. j

Application filed March 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern 5 Be it known thatLELMER E. BROWN, of Portland, in the county of Cumberland and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Adjustable Blanket- Fasteners; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the acpanying drawings, forming apart of this speciiication, in which Figure 1 is a top plan of the fastener; Fig. 2, a detail showing a mode of connecting the fastener to the blanket; Fig. 3, a section of the same; Fig. 4, a view of horse and blanket with fastener in use.

It is the object of my invention to produce a convenient and reliable means of securing blankets upon horses. Several devices have been in use, but none have proved satisfactory. The surcingle, which has been so long employed, with its various improvements, still fails to keep the blanket in place.

My invention consists of two or more straps passing transversely under the belly of the horse and secured to both sides of the blanket. These may be made in two parts, and these parts united by means of a buckle. The transverse straps may alsobe connected by a strap which is capable of being lengthened and shortened and passes under the middle line of the belly from the front transverse strap to the hindmost one.

Referring to the drawings, .01 d are the trans verse straps, each having at the same end a billet or piece with a buckle, by which the length of the strap (1 may be adjusted.

eis the longitudinal strap, made in two parts secured together by a buckle, and provided with loops at each end, through which the straps d 01 may be passed. The foremost of the straps d should be attached to the blanket just back of the shoulder of the horse and the hindmost'j ust in front of the stifle.

Various devices might be used to connect the ends of the straps d to the, blanket. Billets might be sewed to the blanket at the proper points on each side and the straps d d buckled to the blanket; or the straps (I might be buckled to the blanket upon the off side and secured by another device upon the other side. I prefor to use snaps and rings, and in the; drawings the ,straps d at have at each end a spring hook or snapflz. To receive these snaps rings are secured to the blanket at the proper points,

as indicated above. (See Fig. 4.)

In attaching the ringsf to the blanket I use a leather disk, at, and the plate 5, the former being placed beneath the blanket and thelat- 6e ter outside it. Thus placed, the disk and plate b are fastened together by the screws 0 c, the heads ofthe latter being sunk in the disk. (See Figs. 2 and 3.) Various substitutes may be used instead of the plate b-such, for instance, as a plate of metal bent or looped about the ringf, the ends of the plate being laid flat one above the other and secured to the-blanket by a single screw passing through the disk.

In operation the use of the fastener is sim- 7o ple. In first a pplying it to a blanket, the rings being properly placed, the snaps h are then placed in the rings upon the offside, and the blanket placed on the horse. The snap on the other end of the foremost strap d is then placed 7 5 in the foremost ringfon the near side, and the length of the foremost strap may be then adjusted to the horse. The snap on the hindmost strap cl is then connected with the rear iingf on the near side, and this adjusted and the 8c strap 0 shortened or lengthened, as the size and sex of the animalmay require. \Vhen thus once fitted the blanket may be uu fastened from either side, the books or snaps being allowed to remain in the rings upon the other side, thus rendering the fastener ready-for immediate use and secure from being mislaid or lost. Rings being secured to other blankets, the fastener may be used on all of them-as, for instance, upon the blanket used at night and that used when driving.

This fastener can be readily adjusted to any .form of horse, keeps the blanket securely in place, prevents its turning or rolling up from before or behind, and can be used when driving the horse, either over or under the harness.

The straps d (Z could of course be made long enough to pass entirely around the horse outside the blanket; but this would be found not so convenient or effectual. too

What I claim as my invention is-.

1. An improved fastener for horse-blankets, consisting of two or more transverse straps provided with end attaching devices and a longitudinal strap connected to. said straps,

vided with suitable end attaching devices,

adapted to co-operate with the receiving attachments of the blanket, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved fastener for horse-blankets,

consisting of the adjustable transverse straps,

*the adjustable longitudinal strap provided with cnd loops through which the transverse straps may slide, and the end attaching devices adapted to cooperate-with suitable receiving devices upon the sides of the blanket, 2 all substantially as set forth.

. 4. The combination, in a fastener for horseblankets, of the rings f, transverse adjustable straps d d, with hooks h h, and adjustable strap 6, all adapted to operate substantially as set 25 forth. I

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 3d day of March, 1882 ELMER E. BROVN.

Witnesses:

G. E. BIRD, GEORGE J DAMERY. 

